The Festive Play of Fernando Arrabal

Download or read book The Festive Play of Fernando Arrabal written by Luis Oscar Arata and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-12-14 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Along with Samuel Beckett and Eugene Ionesco, Fernando Arrabal is a major exponent of the Theater of the Absurd. In this study Arrabal's plays are seen as a contemporary expression of a festive form of theater that flourished during the Middle Ages and that had its roots in the drama of Aeschylus and Aristophanes. With this view of Arrabal's work, Luis Arata explores the nature of play in art in the light of Jean Piaget's psychology. He thus offers a new way to approach festive and playful art.